MyCOE Learning Themes and Resources

CLIMATE CHANGEClimate change explores how climates have changed in the past and how climates are currently being influenced by human activities; atmospheric pollution, greenhouse effect, and energy budgets; the AAG’s Teaching About Global Climate Change project, funded by NASA will provide additional modules.Climate Change Teacher Resources

GREEN ECONOMY Green Economy examines geographic characteristics of the global economy and the processes linking economic activities at local, regional, and global scales; analyzes the production and consumption of goods and services in a global market, emphasizing concepts such as scale, globalization, and global value chains; discusses the role of technology change in development of sustainable or “green” economies.Green Economy Teacher Resources

FOOD SECURITY, HAZARDS and VULNERABILITY
Food Security combines fundamentals of population, natural resources, and water resources to examine the growth, decline, and movement of human populations over time and space, and how this affects the availability of resources such as food and water in different natural and political environments and management schemes. Hazards are threats or risks of naturally occurring events that have potentially negative impacts on people or their environment, including floods, drought, hurricanes, earthquakes, or other hazards. Hazards can incite famine or other disasters for communities, causing problems related to securing drinking water and food; urbanization, sustainable development, political economy, “wicked problems”, drought, famine, hazards, risk, disasters, and watershed. Food security teacher resources

YOUTH LEADERSHIP
Leadership is approached with sensitivity to the varied ways in which leadership itself is viewed in different countries, particularly in developing regions. Three fundamental principles of leadership underlie explicit and implicit integration of this topic: Leaders make decisions, and effective decision-making is based on information and knowledge; Leaders take responsibility, they take action; and Leaders build relationships and mobilize communities. Leadership teacher resources